Looking for the Gulf Motel / Richard Blanco.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780822962014
- ISBN: 9780822962014 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0822962012 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- Physical Description: 83 p. ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Looking for the Gulf Motel -- The name I wanted -- Betting on America -- Tía Margarita Johnson's house in Hollywood -- Cousin Consuelo, on piano -- Taking my cousin's photo at the Statue of Liberty -- Of consequence, inconsequently -- The island within -- Poem between Havana and Varadero -- Habla Cuba speaking -- 5:00 AM in Cuba -- Practice problem -- El Florida room -- Sitting on my mother's porch in Westchester, Florida -- Playing house with Pepín -- Afternoons as Endora -- Queer theory : according to my grandmother -- Abuelo in a Western -- The port pilot -- My brother on Mt. Barker -- Papá at the kitchen table -- My father, my hands -- Love as if love -- Maybe -- Cheers to Hyakutake -- Thicker than country -- Killing Mark -- Love poem according to quantum theory -- Birthday portrait -- Mamá with Indians : 1973, 2007 -- Venus in Miami Beach -- Cooking with Mamá in Maine -- House of the Virgin Mary -- Mi rosa y mi sal -- Questioning my cousin Elena -- Remembering what Tía Noelia can't -- Unspoken elegy for Tía Cucha -- Bones, teeth -- Burning in the rain -- Place of mind -- Some days the sea -- Since unfinished. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | 811.54/BLANCO (Text) | 34029123657065 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | 811.54 Bla (Text) | 33620121716027 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | LIT POETRY BLA (Text) | 34010127638764 | Adult Literature | Available | - |
Salem Free Public Library | 811.54 BLA (Text) | 33640140820832 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Scoville Memorial Library - Salisbury | POETRY BLANCO (Text) | 37538128138977 | Poetry | Available | - |
Author Notes
Looking for the Gulf Motel
Richard Blanco was selected as the 2013 inaugural poet for President Barack Obama. He is the author of two other poetry collections: Directions to The Beach of the Dead, winner of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award; and City of a Hundred Fires, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Exploring themes of Latino identity and place, Blanco's poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000 and Best American Prose Poems and have been featured on NPR. He is a fellow of the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, recipient of two Florida Artist Fellowships, and has taught at Georgetown and American universities. A builder of cities and poems, Blanco is also a professional civil engineer.